Chris Foy

[NorCalBlue]

I think the Aguero penalty appeal was a free kick, initial contact was outside the box, Tevez's was stonewall though. Foy is the worst of a bad bunch of Premier League referees at the moment, was it not him who put in a woeful performance against Wolves at home earlier in the season? Again that was a game where a convincing win masked a horrific display. But that just goes to show that if we play well enough then poor refereeing can't stop us.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter where the initial contact was - if the foul is still occurring by the time they're in the box (and it was), it should be a penalty.

You're mistaken mate. It's where the initial offence takes place......

See Law 12 in the "Interpretation of the Laws of the Game and Guidelines for Referees" on p.112 of "FIFA Laws of the Game";
"If a defender starts holding an attacker outside the penalty area and continues holding him inside the penalty area, the referee must award a penalty kick".

However, the Premier League edition does have a the following footnote - "except if the attacker is a Manchester City player", so I think Foy got it spot on.

 

[lionheart]

Stop moaning about little things, guys. Wait until we get Webb or Clattenburg for the derby.

 

[Dirty Harry]

He's a dipper, and a blue one at that, as such he should be nowhere near our games as far as I'm concerned, whether you think he's shit or not, there are too many possible reasons for him to show as much bias as he can get away with, his perfomances when refereeing us warrant such suspicion.

 

[sincity]

To be fair, there were a few occasions when it was 2-1 when he didn't give them soft fouls and I noticed a few of the home crowd getting fed up with it.

Im not defending the cock-end though he is massively corrupt or massively incompetent that penalty decision could have seriously fucked us against a tough side like norwich

yes, that's right, not only that, there were two incidents of two-footed tackles by Zabba and Yaya, that I thought Foy would do something. Both of them got the ball, but when I saw it I cringed because it reminded me of Kompany's tackle, and that it was Foy who sent him off in that game..
Thankfully, either the scoreline was such that whatever Foy did wouldn't affect the outcome, or Riley must have have told his pack of referees to go easy on such tackles, especially if the player gets the ball..

 

[Akira]

I wish our manager, or someone there, to have said something about that disgrace of a booking.

 

[Bill]

Is there a thread about him yet? Sorry if there is.

He was wank, tried his best but unfortunately for him we were better.

In a tight game he might have made the difference, the 6-1 scoreline will help to disguise yet another inept referees' performance, but I'd just like to highlight the fact he still got any big decision he had to make wrong.

you could see him physically throw the towel in yesterday, seriously he was wank untill it was 2-0, he gave everything he could to norwich including booking tevez instead of giving us the pen.when the second goal went in his body language changed completly, his efforts were futile and he knew it.he proceded to ref the game more on an even keel, it must have hurt him but i dont think he had a choice, even he couldn't stop norwich getting battered.

a disgrace of a referee and an out and out cheat. always has been.

 

[Lucky13]

Foy should be be made to apologize for the Tevez penalty/dive booking.

 

[waspish]

Foy is waltons replacement for our annual Everton trip

 

[St Ives blue]

Lost control of the game after 15 minutes.

Poor referee, you can't justify and make excuses for some of his decisions today.

Oh and by the way, he's an Everton fan.

Unbelievable the shite that has been spouted on this subject. Apart from the Tevez non-penalty incident Foy did pretty well I thought, encouraging play to continue when several refs would have blown and stopped the flow of the game. It was probably for this reason why it was such an entertaining game and we scored so many goals.

I think Norwich felt more aggrieved than we did at some decisions going against them. So get a life and enjoy the victory.

 

[Lucky13]

Lost control of the game after 15 minutes.

Poor referee, you can't justify and make excuses for some of his decisions today.

Oh and by the way, he's an Everton fan.

Unbelievable the shite that has been spouted on this subject. Apart from the Tevez non-penalty incident Foy did pretty well I thought, encouraging play to continue when several refs would have blown and stopped the flow of the game. It was probably for this reason why it was such an entertaining game and we scored so many goals.

I think Norwich felt more aggrieved than we did at some decisions going against them. So get a life and enjoy the victory.

It was the biggest decision of the game , he was 10ft away, he got it wrong.